CVE-2002-0935 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Apache Tomcat 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.1.3 beta, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large number of requests to the server with null characters, which causes the working threads to hang.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apache	Tomcat

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0120.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/277940
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9396.php
http://www.osvdb.org/5051
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5067
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:49.295Z

Reserved: 2002-08-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0935

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-10-04T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-0935

Redhat

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